CLI Send/Receive Mail

[machinebacon]

We do have an excellent HOWTO for mutt, written by slartie, and as alternative we could look into Pine/Cone (Yeah why not!). I mean, it was _the_ mail reader those days.

Let me dig into the manpages :D

[machinebacon]

Yesh, not just (just not) mutt!

SendEmail
Very no-nonsense SMTP mail dispatcher.

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sudo apt-get install sendEmail

Check the manpage, a command typically looks like this:

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sendEmail -f [email protected] -t [email protected] -u sendEmail -m "We will eat your children" -s mail.linuxmint.org -xu LoginName -xp ThisPassword

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nmh
Message handler.

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sudo apt-get install nmh

Best is to get started like this: read the fucking manpage (it's no excuse!) and

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/usr/bin/mn/install-mh

and edit .mn_profile later. Have fun. Awfully complicated :D

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fetchmail
As the name suggests.

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sudo apt-get install fetchmail

Then set it up:

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sudo nano /etc/default/fetchmail

change the DAEMON entry to yes. Save and exit. Create as root

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nano /etc/fetchmailrc

and add this:

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# /etc/fetchmailrc for system-wide daemon mode
# This file must be chmod 0600, owner fetchmail

set daemon     300                # Pool every 5 minutes
set syslog                        # log through syslog facility
set postmaster  root

set no bouncemail               # avoid loss on 4xx errors
                                # on the other hand, 5xx errors get
                                # more dangerous...

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# Hosts to pool
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# Defaults ===============================================================
# Set antispam to -1, since it is far safer to use that together with
# no bouncemail
defaults:
timeout 300
antispam -1
batchlimit 100

poll pop.provider.com protocol POP3 user "[email protected]" there with password "secret" is BaconFace here
poll mail.provider.org protocol POP3 user "Julius" there with password "donttellya" is BaconFace here fetchall
poll mailin.grillspot.co.uk protocol POP3 user "Beefy" there with password "ilovebacon" is Baconette here keep

#fetchall = collect all messages, also read one
#nofetchall = only new/unread messages are collected
#keep = never delete messages on the server
#nokeep = delete messages on the server

# save me as /etc/fetchmailrc
# chmod 600 /etc/fetchmailrc
# chown fetchmail /etc/fetchmailrc

Save it, chmod 600 it, and make it chown for fetchmail. The nice thing about the config file: there, with and here are ignored by fetchmail and can be used to make the config file easier to read. "is" points to the name of the local mailbox, by the way.

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References
cone
quick setup http://inconsolation.wordpress.com/2013 ... or-e-mail/

mailutils
manual http://mailutils.org/manual/mailutils.html
wiki http://mailutils.org/wiki/Main_Page
send per CLI http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2006/ ... -line-mail

[GekkoP]

Didn't know there were so many options. Interesting stuff.

[machinebacon]

Many many more, some are parts of mail handling packages. Will expand the top post as time allows :)

[rust collector]

I use cone, but I have 2 email accounts, and maybe 4 mails on a busy day.
I dunno how crap it is, but it is pretty easy to set up.

[machinebacon]

^ rusty, wanna write a little howto about it? ;)

[rust collector]

I wish I had something useful to say about it, I found it on inconsolation.
He has the info to add a gmail account, which is what I have.
So in my case, it is just a case of following exactly what it said there.

http://inconsolation.wordpress.com/2013 ... or-e-mail/

[ivanovnegro]

^ rusty, wanna write a little howto about it? ;)

That.

Found it also on Inconsolation. I have to say it sounds impressive. Was browsing the homepage. If I have time I might write a how-to after trying it out.

[ivanovnegro]

Not sure, I just post it here for now:

http://supmua.org/

Another CLI mail client I never heard about and even in the Debian repos, called sup-mail.

[machinebacon]

It's super easy. Really just copy the snippet there :) I rather like to see something about the exim4 or what the name is :D Or wanderlust or gnus :D

[ivanovnegro]

Yes, it is easier as we thought. Easy makes it attractive, too.

[wuxmedia]

^ so back to icedove 8(
couldn't get any of them to connect. 8(
meaning I couldn't be bothered to work out why, after i put my credentials in.

[wuxmedia]

Sylpheed FTW.
Load has dropped by half.

[dkeg]

Sylpheed / Claws both very good. Still a bit unsure exactly the difference.

[GekkoP]

^ regular Sylpheed user here. Love it.
If I understand it right, Claws has more plugins. Never tried it though.

[machinebacon]

sylpheed is a fork of it, and IIRC the plugins are separated in claws, so they grow with time (in amount). originally claws was meant to be a test bed for functions that were planned to be implemented in sylpheed.

[machinebacon]

OK I moved and merged and whatnot, hope things are in order :)

[wuxmedia]

excellent - I was worried that I went offtopic a lot.